Too busy listening to the sound of M’Benga’s voice to hear the words he’s saying.

They wouldn’t put this tease in the trailer if they weren’t actually bringing Him back, right?

Right?

I love Voyager, but of all Treks it’s the hardest to make a move of. Their whole thing was to get home and… they did! You can’t have ‘We need to reunite the old gang to get home from the Delta Quadrant one last time’.

Oh no. Not the real estate industry.

It’s job? The vacuum guitar schema. Rough!

Bonus fun: watching YouTube’s auto-generated subtitles try to deal with Klingon.

Yep. I just watched ‘Past Tense’ this week, where DS9 spends an entire two-parter advocating for the humane treatment of homeless and unemployed people through an economic policy of full employment. The characters succeed in bringing this about by staging an armed uprising largely led by a black man. It’s not only ‘woke’ but explicitly socialist!

Each to their own! I feel like you’re describing what the show wanted to be quite accurately, but for me it didn’t manifest much on screen.

Granted my memories may be a bit on the negative side because I’ve been doing this rewatch order and the last episode I watched just so happens to be ‘These Are the Voyages’ which, uh, yeah.

You didn’t miss much. A confused and confusing mess.

‘We’ve had air date order, yes. What about stardate order?’

You mean Enterprise.

Love the idea that the Enterprise just flies about blasting its own theme tune on every subspace channel.

If you can’t persuade people to vote for this stuff, how are you going to persuade them to go on strike for it?

I don’t know, we already have open source 3D printers and they really haven’t brought about the industrial revolution some people hoped. Not quite the same as replicators, granted!

I agree, that logic has been used to justify atrocities throughout history, including right now. It’s exactly what Israel says about Palestine, China about the Uyghurs, Trump about Mexican immigrants. And it’s completely antithetical to Star Trek’s values.

You found the one reviewer who liked it. I bet they like season 1 of TNG, too.

Den of Geek: Star Trek: Section 31 Review: Badly Goes Where Everyone Has Gone Before.

The ship flying out of the rift reminds me of the XCV-330 Enteprise from the 22nd Century, first seen as part of the Enterprise lineage of ships in a painting in TMP. The ring structure might be a coleopteric warp drive which the XCV-330 used, also used by Vulcan starships.

I think a similar ring design was also an early concept for the Enterprise, before they settled on the familiar saucer + nacelles look.

Totally agree with you. One of the things that I love about LDS is that it’s not just by and for fans of the show - that’s more or less a given with any longstanding franchise - but that it’s about fans of the show.

[Spoiler tag here because I’m talking about the most recent episode and I know some people won’t be caught up yet!]

Great notes, as always!

Freeman sends Purple Data back through the fissure in a photon torpedo tube, much like how Spock’s body was shot towards the Genesis Planet at the end of ST II.

Along with the use of the torpedo tube, I thought Mariner’s off-key flute playing in this scene was a homage to Scotty playing the bagpipes at Spock’s funeral.